Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialJohn Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026In 2025, the world started construction of nuclear power plants that would generate 12 GW of power if completed. In the same year, it installed 108 GW of batteries and 600 GW of solar capacity. 1223587
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialWWF Climate and Business @wwfclimatebiz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025❗The risks posed by a warming planet are escalating. 🤝Corporate action is a key priority to help tackle the climate crisis. 🐼 WWF's guide -Beyond Net-Zero- is live, providing companies with a clear guide for action. 📽️ Find out more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLLG... #ClimateandBusinessyoutube.comBeyond Net Zero (2025)YouTube video by WWF Climate and Business 042
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialWWF Climate and Business @wwfclimatebiz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025🎥If you missed the launch webinar for "Beyond Net-Zero: WWF's guide for businesses to help drive climate action", you can now watch the recording here: ow.ly/vpkT50WXxUc 🐼 Find out more about the report here: ow.ly/fuw750WXxUe #ClimateBusiness #NetZero 022
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialWWF EU @wwf.eu · 23/04/2025📊Half of business leaders globally say they'll relocate operations/supply chains if countries don’t transition away from fossil fuels. 💡Clean power is more than climate action — it's a smart business decision. Explore the findings: powering-up-business-poll.com #PoweringUpPoll #RenewableElectricty 1209
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialJosh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025High drama at the International Maritime Organisation, as a set of policies to drive the shipping sector to net-zero goes to a vote. A set of countries including Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and Russia 🇷🇺oppose the deal. Pacific island nations, who have been pushing for more ambition all week, chose to abstain. 63214
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialWWF Media Team @media.panda.org · 11/04/2025A groundbreaking global deal just landed to cut emissions from shipping This makes shipping the first global sector with a regulated pathway to net zero, but key aspects of the agreement fall short of what is needed to drive rapid action in the near term #IMO #MEPC83 #ClimateAction 154
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialWWF Media Team @media.panda.org · 03/04/2025A net zero shipping deal is in sight! 🚢 Next week, countries have the opportunity to secure a landmark agreement that would see the sector rapidly cut emissions and environmental harms ✍️WWF's Mark Lutes writes for @climatechangenews.com #IMO #MEPC83climatechangenews.comLandmark deal to put shipping on course for net-zero is in sightGovernments will try to agree on how to get the shipping industry to meet its net-zero goal. The discussion includes a levy and green fuel. 066
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025My article on the shipping GHG emission negotiations on now. 000
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025See my article on thw IMO shipping negotiations here! 010
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Every year, the World Economic Forum at Davos reports on the consensus of risks facing the world. In the short-term, it's DISINFORMATION. Long-term, it's CLIMATE CHANGE. And, guess what, they're linked! 28642270
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Brazil's newly appointed #COP30 President designate Andre Correa do Lago's first interview is well worth a read: valorinternational.globo.com/environment/...valorinternational.globo.comU.S. exit from Paris Agreement adds challenge to COP30UN conference in November aims to transform negotiations into concrete actions to accelerate global climate response, says Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago 000
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Finding a hotel room for COP30 in Belem, will be like "a knife fight in the dark" according to the President of the local Hotel Association (SHRBS), with 70-80,000 people competing for 40,000 beds of all types. Apartments are being posted for more than US$ 16,000 per day. tinyurl.com/2swrw445oliberal.comDiárias de hospedagens em Belém podem passar de R$ 100 mil durante a Cop 30Preços altos são reflexo de muita demanda para pouca opção, aponta representante do setor 000
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025For those planning to attend COP30 in Belém this November, get ready for astronomical prices for hotel rooms, if there are even any available. Belém promises to make Baku and Sharm el Sheikh look like bargains. valorinternational.globo.com/environment/...valorinternational.globo.comHotel rates surge turns Belém into “COP of the elite”Accommodations in Pará’s capital more expensive than previous UN event locations during same period 000
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025More support for a levy as part of the IMO shipping GHG emission reduction measures to be agreed by MEPC83 in April 2025. Now leading flag states Panama and Liberia have added their support. www.ft.com/content/db5b...ft.comBiggest shipping nations back flat tax on emissionsWorld’s two most important countries for registrations join efforts to impose flat levy on pollution 000
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialMaddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Another hottest year on record—but you probanlt wont remember it that way. My latest for National Geographic explores the mind trick that causes us to normalize the climate crisis: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...nationalgeographic.comHow your mind tricks you into ignoring the climate crisisEarth continues to break temperature records, but if it doesn't feel that way, you might be experiencing this subtle mind trick. 22611
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Labor ending the year as they started it by approving four more coal mines. Climate crisis? What climate crisis? Apparently Gina has told them not to worry, we are in a post truth, post physics, world anyhow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comAlbanese government approves four coalmine expansions as Greens condemn ‘despicable’ moveTanya Plibersek says projects in NSW and Queensland produce coal for making essential steel as critics say move ‘opposite of climate action’ 916766
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialGerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The Energy Transition makes a Nazi the world’s richest man was not on my climate change bingo card. Life is full of surprises. 616134
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/12/2024If we look at cumulative CO₂ fluxes over the industrial era, the ocean is the only thing helping keep atmospheric CO₂ from rising even higher. The terrestrial biosphere is just taking up what it has emitted. 🌊 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... 316445
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Company makes climate pledge, spends lots on PR to tout its environmental commitment. Co. reneges on climate commitment. Rinse and repeat. www.ft.com/content/6e73...ft.comWalmart pushes back climate change targetsWorld’s largest company by sales acknowledges progress is delayed and it expects to miss its 2030 goals 310634
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024“The I.C.J. proceedings could establish that addressing climate change is not just a matter of political will or voluntary pledges—it is a binding legal responsibility.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comThe International Court of Justice Takes On Climate ChangeThanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague. 8686162
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Republicans may not believe in climate change, but the insurance industry does 301152377
marklutes.bsky.social @marklutes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Marketing fossil fuels as carbon neutral is never a good idea, but doing it with phony credits is the next level of absurd! www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...climatechangenews.comShell greenwashed gas using "phantom" carbon creditsShell delivered "carbon neutral" gas using "phantom" carbon offsets from Chinese rice paddies, questioned for not carrying out any activities 000
Reposted by @marklutes.bsky.socialRishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Many developing countries reject new climate finance #NCQG text which proposes $250billion per year by 2035. Annual adaptation costs in developing countries alone are ~$400 billion. Largest bloc of 134 developing countries (G77 & China) had sought $1.3trillion of which $600billion is grants #COP29 065
